Ashrafuz Zaman Khan
Ashrafuzzaman Khan is a Pakistani Bengali cleric and a convicted mastermind of 1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals. In 1971, he was a member of the Central Committee of the Islami Chhatra Sangha.
After the surrender of Pakistan to India and the United States, and the subsequent liberation of Bangladesh, he went to Pakistan and worked for Radio Pakistan. Later, he migrated to America. He was president of the Imams of America association and later headed the Queens, New York branch of the ICNA. He was sentenced to death in absentia by the International Crimes Tribunal (Bangladesh) for the murders of 18 Bengali intellectuals during the last days of the 1971 war in Bangladesh.
Activities as a commander of Al Badr
Khan shot to death seven teachers of Dhaka University in the killing zones at Mirpur. Mofizzuddin, who drove the vehicle that carried those victims to Mirpur, clearly identified Ashrafuzzaman Khan as the "chief killer" of the intellectuals.After 1971 War
After the liberation of Bangladesh, Khan's personal diary was recovered from his residence, 350 East Nakhalpara Road. Two pages of his diary registered names and residential addresses of 19 teachers as well as the name of the medical officer of Dhaka University. Of those 20 persons, 8 were missing on 14 December: Munier Chowdhury, Dr. Abul Khair, Ghiasuddin Ahmed, Rashidul Hasan, Dr. Faizul Mohi, and Dr. Murtaza.Mofizuddin confessed that Khan had shot all of them. As per Mofizuddin's description, the decomposed bodies of those unfortunate teachers were recovered from the swamps of Rayer Bazar and the mass grave at Shiyal Bari at Mirpur. There were also other names in the diary including Dr. Wakil Ahmed, Dr. Nilima Ibrahim, Dr. Latif, Dr. Maniruzzaman, K.M. Saaduddin, AMM Shahidullah, Dr. Sirajul Islam, Dr. Akhtar Ahmed, Zahirul Huq, Ahsanul Huq, Serajul Islam Chowdbury, and Kabir Chowdhury.
Another page of his diary recorded the names of 16 collaborationist teachers at Dhaka University. Apart from that there were also names of Chowdbury Moinuddin, the chief of operation for elimination of the intelligentsia, and Shawkat Imran, a member of the central Al-Badr command and head of Dhaka Al-Badr forces. The diary contained names and addresses of several other prominent Bengalis, all of whom lost their lives at the hands of Al-Badr forces. On a small piece of paper the name of the member finance of the Pakistan Jute Board, Abdul Khalek, was written down. On 9 December 1971, the Al-Badr forces kidnapped Mr. Khalek from his office. They demanded Taka 10,000 as ransom. They saw Mrs. Khalek for ransom money. But at that time she was unable to pay the kidnappers more than 450 taka. She promised that she would give them the rest of the money later and begged them her husband's life. But Khalek never came back. Khan was also implicated in the murder of some journalists. Khan kidnapped the shift-in-charge of the Purbadesh, and the literary editor, Golam Mustafa.